September
23 - Winning
Both the War on Terror and the War on Drugs in Afghanistan by
Dr. Michael Carnahan, Senior Adviser to the Finance Minister,
Government of Afghanistan.
September
30 - Pakistan
in Perspective by Brian Spooner, Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Museum Curator for Near Eastern Ethnology, University
of Pennsylvania
October,
4 - Pakistan:
Staunch Ally or Dangerous Rogue? by Dr. Stephen P. Cohen,
Senior Fellow Brookings Institute
October
7 - Looking
for “Culture” in All the Wrong Places: A Return to
Field Notes a Decade Later by Isabelle Clark-Deces, Associate
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
October 13 - Domesticating
the Turkish Conquest of North India: a Warrior Saint and the Women
of the Gangetic Plain by Shahid Amin, Professor of History,
University of Delhi.
October
14 - The Play
of the Mother: Possession and Power in Hindu Women’s Goddess
Rituals by Kathleen M. Erndl, Associate Professor, Department
of Religion, Florida State University.
October 18 - Hindutva
After the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections by David Ludden, Professor
of History, University of Pennsylvania.
October 28 - The
Importance of Friendship in the Mahabharata by Alf Hiltebeitel,
Professor of Religion, George Washington University
November 4 - Deep
Beauty: Elusive Females in Goddess Shrine Origin Tales by
Ann Grodzins Gold, Professor, Department of Religion and Department
of Anthropology Syracuse University.
November
11 - The Unknown Yudhisthira of the Mahabharata
by James Fitzgerald, Professor and Associate Head, Department
of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee.
December
2 - Something
Fishy About Hanuman: How Sexuality Still Sometimes Swims around
the Ramayana’s Reservoir of Brahmacharya by Philip
Lutgendorf, Associate Professor, University of Iowa.
The Center for South Asia
Lectures are usually held at noon every Thursday in Room 206 Ingraham
Hall, UW Campus. Look for a list of our Summer 2005 and Fall 2005
Lecture Series on our Web Site.
